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NOTES & COMMENTS.
CANNOT SOMETHING BE DONE?
like
TUESDAY, MARCH 9. 1920.
DAY BY DAY.
of the neighbouring streets, Engineers. reaching up Pedder Street besond
we were able to see, not a thing
became
We
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CURRENT COIN.
sometime, and hopes of cheaper money after the Chinese New Year have so far not fructified. Money is still tight, and the native hanks, who have all along
cannot
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long.
in the prices of almost every
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
BY MERCATQR."] THERE IS EVERY EVIDENCE
The explosion which wrecked We want to have a very plain TO-DAY THAT IF YOU WANT
Realisation of a possible danger fed the local speculation in
and stocks
shares, are an Edinburgh cork factory re- talk about a very great public MONEY, YOU DO NOT EARN IT:
"BAG" IT. IT involves the taking of steps for
demanding very high rates cently was probably caused by nuisance, We have referred to it YOU HAVE TO
of interest. Theso conditions what is usually considered as before, but it seems as though DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER IT IS its prevention. Human nature is
and harmless dust. Any dust that nothing has been done in the DONE WITH "JEMMIES OR WITH so constituted. It is always easy to steer clear of coming troubles, matter towards effecting an im- SHARES.-Mr. 17. L. George.
by recognising them, and I hope the cycle of cheaper money must will burn can be made to explode provement. Those who were in!
the Swedish that will be the course which the set in sooner or later. "The volume under certain condition. All that According the vicinity of the Post Office just before one o'clock yesterday will Government Gazette. Captain G. Government will follow this year of business on the Stock Ex is necessary is that there shall be a years ago bear us out when we state that a w. Olivecrons, Engineer-in-Chief regarding the possible scarcity of change has been cut down to a mixture of air and dust in definits launch was lying alongside Blake to the Board of Conservancy rice supplies in the Colons. The fibe margin. The bogey of a proportions. Some
this month is probably frighten-as the result of a mysterious Pier and pouring out volumes of Works of Kwangtung, has receiv rice problem has not been solved heavy settlement at the end of three four mills were destroyed dense black smoke which spreaded his appointment as Major of entirely. A fortnight s&c.
of meeting of the non-officials of the ing investors, who think that explosion, and experiments subse- they could pick up stocks cheap. quently carried out left no poss- a pall over the whole the Royal Swedish. Corps Legislative Council was held to The March settlement is not a ibility of doubt but that flour
consider the situation. His
It was de- Excellencs put the facts regard ponderous one and the opinion is dust was the cause. the Hongkong Hotel. So far as
In the Billiard Championship. ing a possible world shortage of held that before it falls due, the monstrated that two ournes "of was done to inform the launch Mr. Yvanovich yesterday defeat the cereal before the Members, conditions of the money market flour dust in a box containing two staff that they were commiting aed Mr. Parkes by 500 to 395. The and I am told that it was decided would be such as to make higher cubic feet of air could be exploded
stocks quite probable.
big men standing on the ild. breach of the local Ordinances winner made a break of 76 and to watch the situation for the prices of most of the favourite with sufficient force to upset two
In all likelihood the
From which it was calculated and it was not until the launch the loser one of 33. Mr. Yvanovich present.
that about 2001b. of four dust Hall Control system will come into Mr. meet moved away that the cloud will
The local metal market is ignited in 4,000 cubic feet of air appreciably lessened. in the semifinal To-night. Mr. operation in the Colony this year. Why is it that the Folies do not K. Kwok and Mr. W. E. Crocker We shall see to what extent the quite firm. Within the last three would throw a weight of 2,500 Government has gained ex- take some action 10 stop play off.
periance from its past blunders. months there has been an intons to a height of 100ft. what constitutes a disgrace- ful Duisance? Ther have The Hongkong Tramway Com-As a matter of common-sense, the crease of thirty to forty per cent.
is desirous of
class of metal. Shipments at But for an audacious theft by interfering with the power and yet launches pany's receipts for the week end-Governmen:
the
ambassadress, Australian continue to half choke all who ed March 6th. totalled $15.263 not
of $524 general and legitimate trade. Present are uncertain. Price istan are forced to be in the vicinity at which is an increase
metal market to-day. It is aition to make such huge profits It seems inexplicable and it is For the ten weeks of the year, /conditions of world shortage is question of service and delivery-out of the demand for merino the time of their illegal coaling over the same week last year, but its duty in the present not the determining factor in the farmers might not be in the pos
takings are $143.178 to see that there is no recurrence
kong merchants show a decided Arthur, the first settler to realise hich time that those occupying the total
previous year. The Government offices and shops near the Praya which is a decrease of $1.948 of the distressing incidents of the The prices quoted by the Hong-wool. In 1804 Captain John Mc- has to do its best to preserve the upward tendency: After the sign the possibilities of sheep-breeding ing of the Armistice all countries in New South Wales, took eight made representations to the Cap-over the same period last pear. itain Superintendent to give them
rights of the people, and an effortecased to purchase metals. This merino sheep to Australia, where The following will represent should be made to see that when lasted for six months. It sudden-hitherto this variety of sheep All communications intended for publication should be address-a little more protection.
hesitate to criticise or complain
the Hongkong Hockey Club the shortage becomes more acutely dawned that the spot supplies was unknown. George III ed to the Editor.
of anything in connection with!
against the 74th Punjabis on that holders of stocks should not
them were being quickly depeleted. gave
to McArthur, Business correspondence should be sent to the Manager.
the Police of the Colony justi
pm, on the 1.S.R.C. ground: Je exact unusal profits. The rate of subscription to "The Hongkong Telegraph" is $36|now. because it is evident that in Wednesday. 10th Instant. at 5take advantage of their position This knowledge seemed to have and Farmer George's merinos it is working P. Jones, W. H. Edmands, C. C. shortage of rice in Burma and come to many markets at the were the offspring of some stolen same time, which caused a big by the Spanish Ambassadress in berate per quarter and per mensen, proportional. Subscrip- with considerable efficiener and Hickling, M. L. Raton. Rev. E India amount to 1 million tons demand. Shortly after this de London from the famous Escorial tions for any period less than our month will be charged as for a to the general benefit of the cow. L. Martin. E. J. R. Mitchell, while in Jaya and Siam the emand arose. the stee: workers flock of the kings of Spain. These annity. For some reason this R. A. Brand, 4. K. Mackenzie. Eportation of rice is prohibited. went on strike, both in England were most jealously guarded, so
thing is neglected. The L Sim, J. V. Bruz. B. D. Evans Japan, a rice-producing country and in America. On top of this as to preserve" the monopoly for The "Hongkong Telegraph" is delivered free when the addressee one is accessible to messenger. Peak subscribers can have their copies Ordinance was designed to give
is how a heavy buyer, America came the coal miners' strike. Spanish breeders; but his Majesty capt). delivered at their residences without any extra charge.
is producing rice, but that is being which demoralised all business, induced the lady to steal a pair On copies residents protection, but it is! absolutely incperative. One or sent by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.
A most attractive programme consumed locally, and the de- both in the States and at Home. the deputy) and smuggle them two cases brought before the Single Copies, Daily, ten cents.
now happily (also by deputy) through France Magistrates accompanied by some has been arranged for the concert and from that country is in- These strikes are sharp fines would soon teach to be given at the City Hall to.sistent. During the last week no
for several more months. It is was a pair of creamcoloured horses be launch stokers that they cannot Korrow by Professor Danenberg's less than 5,000 tons of rice have ever, but their effects will be felt into England. The inducement a fact that the efficiency in thelon which her heart was set, and to drench the most pupils. Mrs. H. A. Jones is kindly been sold to America. Ltd..enntinue
Central portion of the City in a assisting and will sing Arditti's ills will come on the market steel rails cannot be restored which cost the King £8,000, cloud of filthy smoke. We con- "Se Saron Rose" and Theresa del soon and will in all probability unless the labourers have been fidently look forward to some Riegu's "Happy Song." She has exert a hardening, tendency on working at the same character of action being taken. If it isn't, recently come to Hongkong with the Exchange. Australia needs work for many months. As a
a trained rice as well. The consumption
strikes, the then there ought to be one or two quite a reputation as
per head per annum in Australt efficiency of all the mills have who is said to be the proud pos- people besides ourselves asking vocalist.
is four pounds. With all the been kept down between 50 to together in perfect harmony, is why.
Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1897 optimism we possess a look at the 75 per cent. of the normal, and only one of many men whose two workmen can accomplish physical equipment defies every PUBLIC OPINION.
measuring 13.000 square feet, was while. Sp far no pinch piece of work that one used to recognised rule, and who are sore Public opinion is a curious yesterday pet up at auction at has been felt in Hongkong do previously. Hence the prices puzzles to the cleverest of doctors. thing. It dethrones a man from the Offices of the Public Works but one can see the situation of materials have advanced great Almost more remarkable is a favour one day and the next it Department and realised $15.000, being aggravated if an embargo ly in Hongkong. This. together well-known New Yorker who puts him back into popularity the upset price being $13.000 is placed on rics exports frem with the conditions prevailing in plays fast and loose with the laws with enthusiasm. Just a little The Crown rent $150 per Saigon; for Saigon at present is the manufacturing countries, will of gravity, in a manner that would more than twelve months ago Mr. annum, and the lease is for a one of our principal sources of serve towards a sharp advance be quite incredible if it were Asquith, who had been the Old term of 75 years with an option supply for rice. However, we in all stee: products. With the
not vouched for by the chief Country's most responsible politic of renewal. The purchaser was have quite a time to wait for the production far below normal and scientists in Americe and on the al head during the first and most Mr. Cheung Pin.
next Siamese harvest, and if with the ever-increasing demand Continent. When this wonderful strenuous war period, was depriv.
there is then not enough rice to from all parts of the world as man steps on the weighing ed of his seat in the House of
The Hon. Treasurer of the fill the needs of the Colons, then well as the domestic demands of machine his weight grows at will Commors and was allowed to Alice Memorial and Affiliated the only persons responsible will the manufacturing countries it is to 200, 400, 600, and as high as 800 retire out of active public life with Hospitals begs to acknowledge be those whose inaptiude has difficult to state at this moment pounds, although he is a slight man scarcely a murmur of disapproval, with
the following placed the consumers in a Fool's what the outcome of the steel whose apparent weight cannot be Most people said that it was a donation to the funds of the Paradise. good thing he had lost his great Hospitals: Colonial Govern-
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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920.
EMPIRE PROBLEMS.
a
things most
thanks
facts ir. the case is
The
These
worth
influence, because they reasoned ment. £300; St. Stephen's College, The most notable event of the
but we hear by Reuter that on his arrival in London he was given
filling
result of
war.
these
took Co steps towards
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and the
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David Holmes, the Canadian
sessor of two hearts which, werk
men cannot raise him an inch
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A floating bank, said to be the only institution of the kind in the world, has lately been installed on an American boat plying on the Detroit River, whose normal function is to deliver mail to
vessels. The innov
situation will be. The Govern- more than 120 pounds. Similarly, ment of the United States are he can reduce his weight until it turning back the railways to falls to that of a boy of ten. If that he was getting too old for $116.39; Mr. Ho Pik Shan, $100: his job. But to-day we see him Belilios Public School, $30 and week in the commercial world was private ownership, as before the he is agreeable, a man of average It is generally believed strength can pick him up and not only returned to the House $20. Mr. Cheung Sum Woo. $100; the sharp decline in the sterling that when this is done large him in the air as lightly as by a really marvellous majority Mr. U. M. Omar. $5.
rate of exchange. This was princip- ically due to the high cross rate orders will be placed for iron and if he were a schoolboy. At an- the price of steel, as the Railroad Administra- other moment half a dozen strong and the drop in The China Mail S.S. Cos silver. The Chinese bave been tion an almost unprecedentedly en- Of Britain's external problems, not the leas: thorny and difficult thusiastic reception. Police had steamer "China" having complet. buying beavily. There has also repairs or rebuilding except those from the ground. at the moment are those which concern Ireland. Egypt and India. to afford him protection from the ed her repairs at Nagasaki will been a serious slump in the value which were urgently needed. It
crowds. Such 2 All three are crying out for a measure of autonomous rele, and nostragging"
sail from that port direct for of the American twenty gold is expected that under private sensible people agree that the demande must be met, in part at least. change must surely be taken as Hongkong on March 11th and dollar pieces, the price dropping ownership the railways will take Few, however, are agreed about the methods to he adopted. In the indicating a general modification may be expected to arrive at this within a fortnight in the Straits immediate steps to place them- case of India, a big step forward has been made by the new measure of public opinion as regards the port un or about March 15th. The Settelments from 65 Straits dollars selves under modern conditions, This is the result of which will create a larger demand of partial self-government, which has been received with acclame- whole political situation at Home Steamer will then be dispatched to 48. tion by the more loyal of the Indians who acknowledge the wonder. Asquith stands for the old from Hongkong on March 20th the cessation of the demand from than ever for steel products. ful benefits which their country has enjoyed under British rule, type of politician-the rather for San Francisco via Shanghai Calcutta. Already there is in the
Egypt is also solid but
sure and Nagasaki, omitting the usual Colony about 200,000 "double scrupulously
There has been great secrecy passing even if it does not fully satisfy the extremists. getting some of her wishes met, though here again the more rabid man, who reasons long before calls at Yokohama and Honolulu eagles" in stock, aggregating in preserved by the local American ation has arisen out of a dif- of the Nationalists still clamour for more. Ireland appears the most committing himself to any ect. this trip.
value to about Hk. $4,000,000. Banks regarding the amount of ficulty experienced by sailors on Apart from this, arrivals from difficult problem of all, and that fact must seem passing strange to The times call for thought far foreigners who are apt to regard the inhabitants of the British Isles more than for action, and it may
A Trade Enquiry List issued America continue to be heavy. silver on which the American the Great Lakes in banking their
Treasury
Federal savings. Their general custom as all pretty much of a muchness and seldom think of the differentia- be a good thing to feel the in- by the American Consulate Gen-By the s.. Nile there came to the Reserve Board arranged to send has been to ask the captain or Euence of this staid and steadyeral, Hongkong, shows that Colony "double eagles" to the ting lines of nationality.
In considering this broad question of modes of government in politician, more especially as American concerns are seeking extent of 113,000, valued roughly out to China to finance American some other officer of their own a local bank. As the I have tried to get this inform-wages in the British Empire, we have always before us the case of the great is now in opposition to the Hongkong connections" as listed at Hk. 2,600,000. More of these business in this part of the world.ship to deposit part of their Dominions of Canada, Australia and New Zealand, who enjoy Government. Whatever may be below:- Dental
money thus gold; gold pieces are expected by the ation from the Manager of the bandling of the complete self-government and prosper under it. Then, too, we think the particular personal view re- bicycle supplies; electrical Nanking, while Shanghai has
International Banking Corpor- entrusted to them involves con- of how after Britain conquered the South African Boers, a new race garding Mr. Asquith's politics, all supplies, tools and hardware, been sending down here large ation, which is acting for the siderable responsibility and is their regular came into the Empire. But the Boers had always been independent men must agree that his return to machinery and automobile acquantities through native banks. American combine. Shanghai entirely outside
meny shipe officers and were well practiced in the ways of freedom. Their two states, the House of Commons is a gain cessories; duplicating machines;
amounts duties, has given out the therefore. naturally united with the British South African colonies of no small value.
pipe threading machines and dies;
The balance sheets of many of already despatched, but I see naturally would like to be re- raw and finished skins, silk piece
the Financial America lieved from acting in the capacity goods, etc: detachable sprocket our joint-stock companies show that
and the banke. The Smuts, Boer leaders, to the British Empire during the World War, The road round the island is chain; automobile tires; paper; better trading results, and in the has given the lie direct to it, cf intermediaries between their
majority of cases dividende are It says.-" Published reports of crews proved the success of British colonising methods in South Africa. very naturally attracting a great iron and steel products; import an improvement on previous dis- shipments of silver dollars to Detroit postmaster is therefore But South African conditions do not prevail in Ireland. Egypt or many moterists, and on all week- and export.
tributions. Whether this is a re- China, which give the total to trying the experiment of making India. Proximity to England complicates the. Irish situation:end days there are many cars en-
cognition by the Directors that date as $15,000,000 are incorrect, the meil boat a branch estabish- lack of education is a danger to Egyptian slf-government: gaged in doing the trip. jealousies among religious sects
shareholders have been starved or according to trustworthy author- ment of the U.S. Postal Savings and strong caste feelings seems a pity that such a fine new
inches deep, and it deprived of their legitimate dues ity. The shipments which are Bank, and the response already among the natives necessitate a cautious procedure in India. road should bave been allowed to two
even easy, So it will readily be seen that the problems which have to be faced are be so badly cut up as it has been in is
for in the past is not known for made under an agreement be-made gives promise that it will very
who do not motor certain, but at any rate the recent tween the Treasury Department be quite successful. not easy of settlement. Foreigners may, as they often do, advocate
and Shaukiwan. the placing of Ireland, Egypt and India on the same footing as the two places between Tytam Tuk those
We noticed cycle, to imagine the risk that dividends declared are an augury and the Federal Reserve Board week-end Great Domicions, but they forget that the conditions are not in any during the
that arises through the rute of loose for good in the future. Docks with the Asia Banking Corpora degree the same, and that what does for Canada and Australasia they are being repaired, and sand giving no stable support to and Lands have paid dividends ation-the International Banking
Banking Corporation the could not with wisdom be applied in the case of these other posses- it is to be hoped that drivers will the weight of a cyclist's machine. which have statisfied their shure Corporation and the Park-Union
outside interest. Full in- to the an Nevertheless, it is generally agreed that the days of paternal use these places with a little We have heard from several holders, while the results of the Foreign
But motor cycliste have a cyclists how they have narrowly trading of the China Sugar participating will not be an-Government, but is dominated by
23 of shipaient or to formation with regard to the government are passing, if slowly. New methods of administration very justifiable complaint to escaped being thrown in fact Refining Company, Limited, for nounced
reason . The have to be found if the peoples of the British Empire are to be con- make. It is all very well to sand one was thrown not so very long last year, have enabled the time
for amount which will be shipped maintained with under the agreement, either as to tented. Our statesmen şır now experimenting in an effort to find
Вестесу that way. Bell government for Ireland and India have been promised road slightly to protect the ago. If the sand could be swept Directors to declare a dividend amounts.
surfacing, but to plaster on sand off and just a thin protective of $25 per share. The prospects the
am regard to shipments is because of amount of time might prove and a Commission is studying the Eyptian problem. Whether the
which harmful to the object of the ship- at covering left, it would be a great for the coming year, I indiscriminately-especially
which is to stabilize first steps to be taken will prove successful remains to be seen. all the corners-is to render that deal better for all users, and would told, are very good, and will the banking situation
previous exists in Shanghai and Hongkong. ments.
exchange in the affect the wear-resisting greatly eclipse the Chronic discontent has always destroyed the Empire that could not road dangerous to all but four not
Will year's showing. The share The financial machinery in American cure it. But Britain converted General Bothe and General Smuts wheeled traffic. On some of the properties of the surface. from enemies to exviours of the Empire. The racial problems in Ire-corners the sand must be nearly the D.P.W. think about it, please? market has been stagnant for neither of these cities is under Chinese markets.” land, Egypt and India, therefore, are surely not basically insoluble.
to found a joint self-government commonwealth. The experiment
has been felicitous. The loyality of General Botha and General DANGEROUS SAND.
sione.
care.
But it
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control of the Chinese
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